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My own cemetery blog of gravestone pictures! I love wandering around cemeteries, particular ones dating back to the 19th century or thereabouts. My focus here is not symbolism or genealogy or history but rather simple aesthetics and novelty. This blog is to showcase gravestones that I find interesting, pretty, or otherwise unique. All pictures are taken by me (for better or for worse). Note: Most pictures are very large in full view.

About Me

I am a graduate of Syracuse University's library science program. I also have a BA in history (quelle surprise, eh?). In my spare time, I like to visit cemeteries and take pictures of interesting headstones.

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"In a Disused Graveyard"

The living come with grassy treadTo read the gravestones on the hill;The graveyard draws the living still,But never anymore the dead.The verses in it say and say:"The ones who living come todayTo read the stones and go awayTomorrow dead will come to stay."So sure of death the marbles rhyme,Yet can't help marking all the timeHow no one dead will seem to come.What is it men are shrinking from?It would be easy to be cleverAnd tell the stones: Men hate to dieAnd have stopped dying now forever.I think they would believe the lie.-Robert Frost